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Title:

There before us : religion, literature, and culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry / edited by Roger Lundin.

Publisher:

William B. Eerdmans Pub.,

Copyright Date:

c2007

Description:

xxii, 250 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Religion in literature
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Religion and literature--United States--History.

Other Authors:

Lundin, Roger.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Roger Lundin -- Signing off : religious indifference in America / Barbara Packer -- "Rare and delectable places" : Thoreau's imagination of sacred space at Walden / John Gatta -- Charity and its discontents : pity and politics in Melville's fiction / Michael Colacurcio -- Nimble believing : Dickinson and the conflict of interpretations / Roger Lundin -- Private interpretations : the defense of slavery, nineteenth-century hermeneutics, and the poetry of Fances E.W. Harper / Katherine Clay Bassard -- Mark Twain's Lincoln as "man of the border" : religion, free thinking, and the Civil War / Harold K. Bush, Jr -- The liberal saint : American liberalism and the problem of character / M.D. Walhout -- A homemade heaven : modernist poetry and the social gospel / Gail McDonald -- Religion and the environmental imagination in American literature / Lawrence Buell -- Afterword / Andrew Delbanco.

ISBN:

9780802829634 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0802829635 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)68133020
(OCoLC)70986686

LCCN:

2006013770

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)